Please stop pretending you know anything about clinical trials.
I work in pharma and I actually DO understand them, and more importantly I know the experts like Dr. Fauci do.
A 40 patient trial isn’t even close to being large enough to determine whether this is going to be a broad based solution. Certainly not enough to be a snake oil salesman and proclaim this a cure or even hint that it is.
There are currently seven more trials registered for these drugs that will test this hypothesis on more patients yielding more definitive results on both a breadth AND depth of patients. Small genetic differences lead to large differences in phenotypic responses, so as I said, it is snake oil salesmanship to pretend we are close to a cure. We are NOT, and you can tell Trump is starting to piss Fauci off by continuing to insist we are.
Let’s wait for the results of these trials (which will take MONTHS) and also the results of the two trials to see whether the drugs can prevent non-infected people from being infected, before we start praising these as the miracle drugs.
All that said, I know there will be a lot of off label use of these in the coming weeks and that’s fine. When it’s life and death and you don’t have options…why not give it a shot? I bet you will note the doctors will NOT be telling the patients or their loved ones that these drugs will cure.
You give hope to people by being both optimistic AND realistic.
You do NOT provide hope by being a snake oil salesman. That STEALS hope…it doesn’t give it.
FDR and Churchill inspired their peoples to fight, not because they promised easy victory but because they promised they would do whatever it takes.
THAT’S how you provide hope.
